STS-99
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STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-99 canonical | 4 |
| STS-99 in Shuttle flight sequence context | 1 |
| STS-99 mission insignia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2330481 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: STS-99 Context triple: [STS-103, precededBy, STS-99]
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A.
STS-96
STS-96 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that performed the first docking with the International Space Station after its initial assembly flights, delivering supplies and equipment.
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B.
STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on neuroscience research as part of NASA’s Neurolab program.
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C.
STS-109
STS-109 was a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2002 that upgraded and refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope, significantly enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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D.
STS-95
STS-95 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for carrying John Glenn back into space at age 77, making him the oldest person to fly in orbit.
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E.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: STS-99 Target entity description: STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
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A.
STS-96
STS-96 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that performed the first docking with the International Space Station after its initial assembly flights, delivering supplies and equipment.
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B.
STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on neuroscience research as part of NASA’s Neurolab program.
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C.
STS-109
STS-109 was a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2002 that upgraded and refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope, significantly enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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D.
STS-95
STS-95 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for carrying John Glenn back into space at age 77, making him the oldest person to fly in orbit.
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E.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| acronym | SRTM ⓘ |
| commander | Kevin R. Kregel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| dataUser |
cartographers
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ climate scientists ⓘ geologists ⓘ military planners ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-101 ⓘ |
| inclination | 57 degrees ⓘ |
| internationalParticipation |
Germany
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ |
| landingDate | 2000-02-22 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2000-02-11 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| mappedCoverage | approximately 80% of Earth’s land surface ⓘ |
| mappedFeature | Earth land surface topography ⓘ |
| mappedLatitudeRange | from 60°N to 56°S ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
11 days
ⓘ
about 11 days 5 hours ⓘ |
| missionName | STS-99 self-link ⓘ |
| missionPatch |
STS-99
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
STS-99 mission insignia
|
| missionSpecialist |
Gerhard P. J. Thiele
ⓘ
Janet L. Kavandi ⓘ Janice E. Voss ⓘ Mamoru Mohri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType | Earth observation mission ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating one of the most complete high-resolution digital topographic databases of Earth ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| payload |
Shuttle Imaging Radar-B
ⓘ
surface form:
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission payload
|
| pilot | Dominic L. Gorie ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-103 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
Shuttle Imaging Radar-B
ⓘ
surface form:
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
|
| producedDataType |
3D topographic map
ⓘ
digital elevation model ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgram |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| target | Earth ⓘ |
| usedInstrument |
C-band radar
ⓘ
X-band radar ⓘ |
| usedTechnique | interferometric synthetic aperture radar ⓘ |
| yearOfMission | 2000 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: STS-99 Description of subject: STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
STS-99 in Shuttle flight sequence context
this entity surface form:
STS-99 mission insignia